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PAWS to the Rescue

Mar 09, 2022

Clark, a confident, athletic, border collie mix, has made quite the transformation over the past year.

For starters, his name used to be Hartley.

When Hartley came to PAWS, he was just a scrawny one-year-old filled with fear. His first adoption attempt failed because he refused to get more than 10 feet away from home and started having debilitating separation anxiety.

Hartley returned to PAWS where he could get the training needed to work through these issues. Our patient staff, volunteers, and fosters slowly got Hartley comfortable taking longer and longer walks.

As Hartley